South Korean experts and media noted Saturday that the just-ended second round of six-party talks has laid foundation for solving the prolonged nuclear issue of the Korean Peninsula.

The four-day multilateral nuclear talks ended in Beijing Saturday with a seven-point Chairman's Statement, which states all the involving parties will pursue a nuclear-weapon free Korean Peninsula.

Reiterating that parties concerned will resolve the nuclear issue peacefully through dialogue, the statement says that the six countries agreed in principle to hold the third round of nuclear talks before the end of June and to set up a working group in preparation for the talks.

"The second round six-party talks kept the momentum of the process for solving the DPRK ( Democratic People's Republic of Korea) nuclear issue," said Go yoo-hwan, a professor of the Dongguk University.

The talks "set rough time of a new one and agreed to set up a working group. All of these can be seen that thread to addressing the DPRK nuclear issue have been found and essential progress have been made," Go said.

The talks "reiterated the principal that the DPRK nuclear issue should be addressed in peaceful way, and fixed the trend of dialogue among involving countries," said Kim Yoon-cheol, a professor from the Asian Institute of Korea University.

In the second round nuclear talks, six delegations exchanged views on various issues, such as the DPRK's nuclear freeze, possible compensations for the freeze, the alleged DPRK uranium issue, Japanese kidnapping issue, the date of the third round of nuclear multilateral talks and setting up a working group.

Analysts in Seoul said,"These discussions added the possibility for the peaceful end of the long-last DPRK nuclear issue."

From the beginning of the second round nuclear talks on Wednesday, South Korean media have paid great attention on the event. Articles about the talks occupied the main sections of local newspapers, any news on the talks were broadcast by local TV and radio channels.

However, local media and experts pointed out that despite progress in the talks, major differences between the DPRK and the United States still remain unsolved.